Issue 2: March/April 2024

The world’s first SpongeBob-themed dark ride celebrates its opening at the Circus Circus Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Under license from Paramount/Nickelodeon, an interactive themed ride has been created that takes park visitors on a vibrant funfair in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. Passengers can try their luck at numerous “game booths” using interactive shooters. At the same time, however, the secret ingredients for the popular “Krabby Patty” must be kept secret from the villain Plankton. A next-level dark ride for an exciting SpongeBob adventure ...

After three extremely stressful years characterized by harsh restrictions, 2023 was expected to finally be a normal year again – also for the leisure and tourism sector. It should! But what did it actually look like? In our Park Report 2023/24, we analyze the past season and venture a forecast for the current year. Not only German, but also international tourism has recovered and theme and amusement parks in particular are proving to be popular destinations ...

“Davy Jones? Dead. Jack Sparrow? Out of the window. Barbossa? Wiped out. Even the toughest pirates just sit at home and howl quietly: Because the cruel ghost of the heartless pirate is up to his murderous mischief! The Caribbean is no longer the free pirate playground it once was.” – With these words, the website of the new Dream Labs Adventure in Bad Steben, Franconia (Germany), encourages people to visit an all-new escape game experience: “The Legend of the Heartless Pirate”. The new leisure offer was developed in collaboration with The Room Labs, which has been creating immersive experiences in the form of escape rooms since 2014 and attaches great importance to actually doing justice to the term of “immersive” ...

The artificial peninsula group Qetaifan Islands is located off Lusail, around half an hour’s drive from the Qatari capital Doha. The northern island is the most recently developed and is primarily intended to serve as an entertainment and tourism destination. One of the island’s best-known hotspots is the new Meryal Water Park, one of the most extraordinary water parks in the world and part of the “Qetaifan Island North” construction project, which was planned by the Qetaifan ProjectsCompany – a subsidiary of Katara Hospitality. In addition to the water park, the project also includes several hotels, a beach club, retail facilities such as a souq and other attractions ...